My aunt raises cattle (among other things) but she can't bring herself to slaughter them. So she trades with one of her neighbors every year, and they slaughter each other's cattle.
Rant VIII: The Reckoning
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GasBandit
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We NAME the food. Cows for slaughter get names like T-Bone, Roast, Ribs and Burger, chickens get names like Fried, Dumpling, and Whole.
The vog is making the sky a weird reddish, yellow-grey. It also feels like it's eating through my skull. Freaking vog.
Found a grand total of ONE potential apartment so far that wouldn't eat an entire paycheck and more for rent. And that one looks to not be worth bothering with because of other issues. Even if the money wasn't a problem, I've fucked my life up too much to be worth the bother.
At least I can drop my health insurance premium down to less that $3/mo with the cheapest option on the Marketplace. The current plan I have jumps from $27 to $72 per month.
At least I can drop my health insurance premium down to less that $3/mo with the cheapest option on the Marketplace. The current plan I have jumps from $27 to $72 per month.
Dave
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Thanks, Trump.At least I can drop my health insurance premium down to less that $3/mo with the cheapest option on the Marketplace. The current plan I have jumps from $27 to $72 per month.
Pud was named Linus which was unacceptable. Lulu had been Wren which was cool enough for a middle name. Cupcake had been Valentina. WTF? We named her before we even started the adoption paperwork. Strider had been Mini which is foolish. She probably ate the person who gave her that name.
I said named with love. There's a difference. Our cats were given random, possibly under the influence names at the shelter. If a person doesn't change those, I wonder if they love their pet enough to be allowed to keep them.
At least I can drop my health insurance premium down to less that $3/mo with the cheapest option on the Marketplace. The current plan I have jumps from $27 to $72 per month.
How topical.
--Patrick
I can explain that for you, sir. You voted for a liar who had no intention of following through with any of his promises to the electorate. And pardon me for saying so, sir, but this was obvious during ths primaries and you were taken in by a scammer.
Vote smarter.
That's a fantastic name!
Duke? I dunno, kinda classic, no?
As if traffic isn't bad enough on Fridays, POTUS is coming here! He'll be going from Honolulu to Pearl Harbor then back to Waikiki all during rush hour on the one main highway, closing lanes and making a mess of getting my kids home from school (because God forbid they close school to avoid this bullshit).
I couldn't cancel my afternoon counseling appointments. I am so screwed.
I couldn't cancel my afternoon counseling appointments. I am so screwed.
November 3rd. November 5th. Eh, the date might not matter much. I mean, the Hawaiians did kill, and may have eaten parts of, Captain Cook.
Perhaps it's time for history to repeat itself.
Ew. That'd be way too fatty
My daughter didn't even get her field trip to city hall postponed a few years ago when the Superbowl parade was happening right there at the same time. Wtf Texas.
Just burn it and douse it in ketchup. Good for the goose is good for the gander, after all.
If the Bills or Sabres ever win a championship (lol) every single school and non-bar business is going to shut down for the parade. It's a once in a lifetime thing. I bet half the teachers will be at the parade too.
GasBandit
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No, we still need the Mariners and Padres to win it before we can worry about the end of the world.Heh, we should be glad it's just Baseball, if it were Football, I'm sure they'd close school for the whole week
That said, the Houston god-damned ASTROS have won the world series.
Last year, the CUBS won.
If the Mets win next year, I'm calling it - the end of the world is here.
What damage could they do that they didn't already do in '69? Although the '73 NLCS riot was probably worse.
GasBandit
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Well, they weren't part of a hopeless triumvirate, for starters
One no show and the other returned my call! YES! Although the secretary at my son's school gave me an attitude for picking him up early without a note. "For future reference, that isn't how we do things." Yeah yeah...in the future I'll break out my crystal ball so I'll know if I can get out of my internship early.
GasBandit
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"For future reference, you're an officious prick. Have a nice weekend!"
Dave
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I’m a good person, am I not? Why does the universe hate me?
Sitting at the hospital with my mom. No idea how bad it is, but I might have to make the call to have her go through surgery or just let her go. My sister and brother are nowhere to be found and no matter what I do it’s going to be a bad decision.
And saying the universe hates me when she’s the one hurt is so fucking selfish.
Sitting at the hospital with my mom. No idea how bad it is, but I might have to make the call to have her go through surgery or just let her go. My sister and brother are nowhere to be found and no matter what I do it’s going to be a bad decision.
And saying the universe hates me when she’s the one hurt is so fucking selfish.
Dave
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Okay I'm back. It's been a long morning but things are going to be fine.
Sometime in the night my mother decided she had to go to the bathroom so - without her walker - she got up and went, but fell. When she fell she fractured her eye socket, nasal passage, broke her nose, and had a bleeding on her brain. When I typed the first part I was going by emergency room physicians who told me if the bleed got any bigger they'd have to take her to surgery, which at best would exacerbate her dementia and at worst kill her. So I'd have to decide at that time (which would have been an ASAP kind of thing) whether or not her quality of life would be worth putting her through that.
We get to the ICU and they inform us that the emergency room people were being rather alarmist. The neurosurgeon said that considering how awake and alert she was that it was probably going to be fine, but we wouldn't know until the second scan. And even if it grew and she needed surgery, it would not do to her dementia what they had told me it would.
The scan came back clean, and by clean I mean the bleed had not grown. They just need her to rest and heal as best she can, so I just came home. I will take a quick nap before going and viewing the house today. Hopefully THAT goes well.
Oh, and this all started at 5:30 or so in the am. It WOULD have started at 2:30 in the am, but the home she is in had my number wrong. Got that taken care of at least.
Sometime in the night my mother decided she had to go to the bathroom so - without her walker - she got up and went, but fell. When she fell she fractured her eye socket, nasal passage, broke her nose, and had a bleeding on her brain. When I typed the first part I was going by emergency room physicians who told me if the bleed got any bigger they'd have to take her to surgery, which at best would exacerbate her dementia and at worst kill her. So I'd have to decide at that time (which would have been an ASAP kind of thing) whether or not her quality of life would be worth putting her through that.
We get to the ICU and they inform us that the emergency room people were being rather alarmist. The neurosurgeon said that considering how awake and alert she was that it was probably going to be fine, but we wouldn't know until the second scan. And even if it grew and she needed surgery, it would not do to her dementia what they had told me it would.
The scan came back clean, and by clean I mean the bleed had not grown. They just need her to rest and heal as best she can, so I just came home. I will take a quick nap before going and viewing the house today. Hopefully THAT goes well.
Oh, and this all started at 5:30 or so in the am. It WOULD have started at 2:30 in the am, but the home she is in had my number wrong. Got that taken care of at least.
Dave
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